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It seems to me that the society that we have become is one which puts aside all hopes of great love. One night stands, meaningless dates, relationships that never get anywhere. As a modernized society we seem to forget the importance of truly connecting with someone and being with the person. We often find ourselves wandering around trying to share our thoughts we people, yet we cannot because we alienated all the people in our lives and mostly, we settle for the people who we know are not good enough for us, but in that instant of utterly low confidence, we give in, and become these people..... voids, emotionless because we are too afraid of showing ourselves; we are afraid of throwing ourselves into the world, into a society that cannot be predicted. Expressing our thoughts may make us feel judged, and rather then feeling better, we feel worse. I often ask myslef: " Are we just too lazy to take care of eachother, or can it be that we have grown too far apart to understand eachother anymore". It is very common nowadays to have same sex relationships and maybe someday the human community will all resort to same sex relationships because we seek to understand eachother, and understanding the opposite sex is like trying to find an end to a ring. We are all to consumed by ourselves, and we put our careers and work ahead of ourselves, because that is the only way in which we think we can survive, but whilst this is striving, our souls become slowly diminished. By bringing forth our talents and developing them into great thing, we are throwing away all that makes us human, and thus we throw away our emotions. We sometimes set our emotions so far aside that we cannot control ourselves anymore, and we do not understand the actions we pass or the deeds we go through with. Psychologists, psychiatrists... do we not realize that they are just doing the jobs our friends should be doing? We have noone to talk to, so we turn to these people. Have we become a society that needs to pay to have someone to listen to us?
I feel that it is so important that we all paid more attention to each others needs and to the tings that matter to other people. It is only when this care is developed that we can move on with our lives in hopes of finding somebody we understand and understands us back. We need to trust eachother, and if that means getting hurt we need to take that risk. If only we took more risks, we would make our lives so much easier, more freewilling; we would live our lives then let it slip right from underneath our fingertips.




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Ah. So there is a whole article. :)

Critique:

It seems to me


Maybe it's just my personal opinion, but this is waaaaaay to casual for a beginning. At least say "I believe." Ech. Maybe people saying "It seems to me" is just a pet peeve of mine.

Whatever. Here's critique that is actually worth something.

One night stands, meaningless dates, relationships that never get anywhere.


This is a sentence fragment. I don't want you to get counted off for bad grammar. You need a subject here.

We often find ourselves wandering around trying to share our thoughts we people, yet we cannot because we alienated all the people in our lives and mostly, we settle for the people who we know are not good enough for us, but in that instant of utterly low confidence, we give in, and become these people..... voids, emotionless because we are too afraid of showing ourselves; we are afraid of throwing ourselves into the world, into a society that cannot be predicted.


Whoa! Major run-on sentence going on here. It is very convoluted and hard to follow. Break it up into several sentences.
Also: Traditionally, and elipse is three periods, ..., not five.

rather then feeling better, we feel worse

Improper form of then. Should be "than".

I often ask myslef


Typo here. Should be, "myself".

" Are we just too lazy to take care of eachother, or can it be that we have grown too far apart to understand eachother anymore".


Two things:
1. Get rid of the space between the quotation mark and "Are"
2. Eath other is two separate words. You write it as "eachother" several times.
3. Give some evidence. Don't just tell me your opinion. Show me why you have that opinion. Give real life examples.

It is very common nowadays to have same sex relationships and maybe someday the human community will all resort to same sex relationships because we seek to understand eachother, and understanding the opposite sex is like trying to find an end to a ring.


1. This needs to be in a new paragraph.
2. Run-on sentence. Break it up.
3. Good metaphor with the ring since we are talking about love/marriage.
4. To me, personally, this idea makes absolutely no sense. Give me reasons why you have it.

[/quote]We are all to consumed by ourselves

Improper form of to. Should be "too".

We are all to consumed by ourselves, and we put our careers and work ahead of ourselves, because that is the only way in which we think we can survive, but whilst this is striving, our souls become slowly diminished[/quote]

Ack. Run-on sentence again. Try reading your article out loud. That might help you understand the problems with your sentence fluency.

We have noone to talk to, so we turn to these people


No one is two words.

Have we become a society that needs to pay to have someone to listen to us?


Good thought. Very interesting.

I feel that it is so important that we all paid more attention to each others needs and to the tings that matter to other people.


Awkwardly written. Re-write as, "I feel that it is cardinal we all pay more attention to each other's needs." It's simpler, so it is more likely to stick with the reader. It is easier to read and I fixed the grammar mistakes.

more freewilling


Free willing. It's two words.

All in all, good work. You just need to give more examples and fix the errors I told you about.

Hope this helped,
Sakura
Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
-Catullus, Carmen 85



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